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Gun Violence Round Table Is Tuesday
October 17, 2022
Following a deadly double shooting at a local youth football game, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office will host a Gun Violence Round Table event to address gun violence in our communities and explore potential solutions.
The event will take place at the Brownsville Community Center, 3200 W Desoto Street, on October 18 beginning at 5:30 p.m. Participants can submit questions or comments in written form by arriving by 5 p..m.
Participants scheduled to attend are:
Escambia County Sheriff Chip W. Simmons
Florida Senate, District 1, Doug Broxson
Florida House of Representatives District 1, Michelle Salzman
Florida House of Representatives District 2, Alex Andrade
First Judicial Circuit of Florida, State Attorney, Ginger Bowden Madden
County Commissioner District 1 and Chairman, Jeff Bergosh
County Commissioner Elect District 2, Mike Kohler
County Commissioner District 3, Lumon May
County Commissioner District 4, Robert Bender
City of Pensacola Mayor, Elect D.C. Reeves
City Council Member District 7, Delarian Wiggins
Pensacola Chief of Police,Eric Randal
Pastor Lonnie Davis Wesley, III, of Greater Little Rock Baptist Church
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7 Responses to “Gun Violence Round Table Is Tuesday”
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. So we should institute gun control measures to make it harder for irresponsible people to get access to guns.
Working class people, the ones on the front lines of everything, need not attend. Show starts at 5:30, but if You have a question, You must be there by 5:00 pm. I understand all the elected officials have been at work since 9 am or earlier, but of those that go in at 7:00 and get off at 5:30.
As big as this issue is, we need to get ALL of Pensacola involved. Many meeting, different times, several locations.
What will help stem the tide are prosecutors actually prosecuting and judges not handing out light sentences and probation like it’s candy. Vote them out Escambia.
Denny, you are spot on with your answer, but I raise this question, does anyone out there have any answers or solutions that can be put into action that will work. However there is something else to take into consideration, and that is the tremendous profit that is made from the sales of drugs. It is my understanding we have a very large number of sheriff’s employees on board nowadays. What can be done to stem the tide of narcotics here in NW Florida? I am just asking questions. What programs are in place that ordinary citizens can get involved in to aid the law enforcement with this mess? From the looks of the news about all the drug related shootings, that Escambia County as a whole is at a critical point in our existence as a decent place to live. Anyone out there with suggestions? Anyone from the Sheriff’s department willing to talk with the citizens out here.
Mainly politicians and attorneys attending who’ll
talk about the problem, but no one who deals with troubled youth to provide solutions.
Very well put. Firearms themselves have never killed anyone, it is a hard heart that kills, regardless of the method used.
We have a “People Violence” problem…. not a gun problem. Illegal drugs are more of a problem than anything else in NW Florida. Drug OD Capitol of Florinda. Yep!!